September 27, 2024 Work Ready Trailers and Bodies

Volume 27 | Issue 3

Gincor Werx supports the construction industry with industry leading vocational upfitter backed by over 65 years of know-how.

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With four decades of experience and expertise in the custom manufacturing of vocational vehicles, Gincor Werx is an industry leader known for quality workmanship and technical innovation. Named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, one of the country’s leading business awards programs recognizing best-in-class businesses, as well as a Great Place to Work Canada 2025 Certified for the fifth consecutive year, the broad Gincor Werx product portfolio includes dump bodies, snow and ice equipment, flat decks, and van bodies, as well as heavy haul, equipment, tag, step deck, and live bottom trailers used by municipalities and the general construction industry.

The company began as a family business in 1978 as Gingras Corriveau, a welding and repair shop run by Robert Corriveau, Philippe Gingras, and Louis Gingras. In 1986, Gingras Corriveau began distribution of BIBEAU dump-body products. This new partnership combined Gingras Corriveau’s quality installation techniques and responsive after sale service with BIBEAU’s superior dump box products. Gingras Corriveau soon became the number one BIBEAU dealer in Canada.

In 2002, Luc Stang, a nephew of Corriveau, bought the company from the original own ers and subsequently rebranded it as GinCor. Stang continues today as President and CEO of the privately-owned business.

When it acquired Durabody in 2015, Gincor Werx became Canada’s largest vocational upfitter with manufacturing, installation, service, and customization capabilities. Additional acquisitions of JC Trailers and Cross Country Trailers further solidified the company as Canada’s largest supplier of truck equipment and trailers. In 2017, Gincor Werx formed a strategic partnership with DEL equipment that brought it a national manufacturing, sales, parts, and service network.

The 2022 acquisition of Drivetec Manufacturing added expertise in the service of hydraulics, drivelines, suspension systems, and vehicle alterations as well distribution of key components to the truck and trailer industry. And in February 2024, Gincor Werx acquired Wiltsie Truck Bodies, maker of a diverse line of dump and truck bodies, pony trailers and flat decks. The company also offers repairs, painting, wheelbase changes and lift-axle calibrations, in addition to distribution for brands such as Grote, Whiting and Tommy Gate. While Wiltsie will be eventually be rebranded as Gincor, their customer base can expect business to continue as usual.

Christian Stang, VP of Business Development, commented on this latest acquisition, saying, “For us, it’s a matter of putting in our best practices and trying to keep some of their best practices. What this acquisition means to Gincor is to be able to better support our current existing client base in southwestern Ontario. Bringing our best practices into that business, and then we start looking at their processes and procedures. Is there something that we can learn? We believe that we can always learn something from somebody.”

Today, Gincor Werx operates together with its partnerships 13 locations throughout Ontario and Canada, employing 550 employees devoted to manufacturing, installation, sales, service and parts. Manufacturing space totals 478,000 square feet, with 90 installation bays, 22 service bays. The company’s extensive suite of products is sold through dealer affiliates.

Custom Dump Bodies

With 110 years of combined truck body manufacturing experience, Gincor Werx provides engineering, metal fabrication capabilities, and project management skills to design and build custom dump bodies for a wide variety of applications used in municipal, mining, military, railroad, and other industrial segments. Gincor Werx fabricates its own line of single, tandem, and tri-axle dump bodies from HSLA or AR Steel in a wide variety of grades and can manufacture a custom HRU dump body with batch gates, gravel chutes, asphalt aprons, and many more features.

Snow and Ice

Gincor Werx is a leading solution provider of municipal and highway snow and ice clearance applications. The company partners with the best OEMs, such as Viking-Cives, to combine plows, wings, scrapers, and salters into a complete upfit package to perform any snow and ice removal job.

Heavy Haul Trailer

When it comes to heavy haul trailers, Gincor Werx quality workmanship and technical innovation is available in a number of different models. These include tag, sliding axle, extendable step deck tanker, 35 ton tandem float, tridem axle hydraulic tilt drop deck, and gooseneck trailers.

Live Bottom Trailers

Gincor Werx live bottom trailers are available in a number of configurations, These include quad steel, tridem steel, and 8 axle.

Van Bodies

Gincor Werx can produce highly customized truck bodies to suit the most challenging applications. The company makes a variety of flat decks or vans, insulated or dry-freight truck bodies for a variety of applications.

Gincor Werx is a Canadian distributor for world renowned Schmitz Cargobull Truck Bodies, the best in class refrigerated truck body manufacturer. Its patented Ferroplast™ panel technology provides significant savings to lowering the total cost ownership.

Decks

Whether it’s an aluminum deck to accompany a crane installation, a delivery vehicle or tilt deck tow truck, Ginco Werx craftspeople build and install a high-quality steel, checker plate, or wood floor deck. Dumping platforms are an option. Trucks are further customized with a complete selection of accessories such as tool boxes, storage bins, headboards, and lighting. Platformdecks are built to customer requirements using high grade materials and heavy duty construction.

Parts and Service

Gincor Werx recognizes the importance of supporting all its equipment after it leaves its manufacturing facilities. Service reps are highly skilled and expertly trained technicians ready to provide exceptional service support. The company also provides mobile service to northern and eastern Ontario.

Financing

Gincor Werx Finance provides a number of attractive options for customers to finance their next equipment purchase.

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